I was just wondering..I have a small amount ( like 15 ounces) of silver/gold bullion. I do not have a safe or a place for a safe even if I could buy one, and I dont want to pay for a safe deposit box. Do you guys have any tips for hiding it? I'm afraid someone might steal it.
Hiding Silver/Gold
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Round or ingot planks?
1-The back or bottom of the freezer (wrapped in butcher paper for camo).
2-Bottom of ammo can #3.
3-Wrap in plastic wrap and duct tape them under your important furniture (dresser, coffee table, or computer desk).
4-Spice rack inside empty spice container (pepper, baking soda)
Good with tools?
1-Cut grooves in tops of solid doors (closet or other seldom opened doors) big enough to slide the rounds or planks into on end.
2-Build a piece of furniture (night stand, tool chest, shelves, entertainment center) and include false bottoms and doors.
3-Modify existing furniture or cabinets with false compartments (usually rear access).
Good with arts?
1-Stick them in Plaster of Paris (plastic wrap for protection) and carve & paint the plaster into a decoration (symbols of family heritage, prized kindergarten project, memento of your past).
Depending on how long you're going to be at your current location (homestead, gypsy life, college), the potential locations to hide stuff is endless.
1-The back or bottom of the freezer (wrapped in butcher paper for camo).
2-Bottom of ammo can #3.
3-Wrap in plastic wrap and duct tape them under your important furniture (dresser, coffee table, or computer desk).
4-Spice rack inside empty spice container (pepper, baking soda)
Good with tools?
1-Cut grooves in tops of solid doors (closet or other seldom opened doors) big enough to slide the rounds or planks into on end.
2-Build a piece of furniture (night stand, tool chest, shelves, entertainment center) and include false bottoms and doors.
3-Modify existing furniture or cabinets with false compartments (usually rear access).
Good with arts?
1-Stick them in Plaster of Paris (plastic wrap for protection) and carve & paint the plaster into a decoration (symbols of family heritage, prized kindergarten project, memento of your past).
Depending on how long you're going to be at your current location (homestead, gypsy life, college), the potential locations to hide stuff is endless.
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I can hide it for you and won't tell a soul, not even you!
But take a zip lock baggie and tape it to bottom of the TV, a small wall safe behind your chest of drawers or behind your clothes in your closet, a fake plastic drain pipe in your house, put them between crappy cards in the old 8th grade '87 tops album between Greg Brock and Joe Cowley.
But take a zip lock baggie and tape it to bottom of the TV, a small wall safe behind your chest of drawers or behind your clothes in your closet, a fake plastic drain pipe in your house, put them between crappy cards in the old 8th grade '87 tops album between Greg Brock and Joe Cowley.
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Nice....40 grand worth of silver in the tomato hole. All I got in mine is a dead fish!
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Burry it in the yard and put something over it like a huge planter or a koi pond or something.
If inside your house, put it in the wall. Remove an electrical or cable outlet and drop it into the drywall. Then replace the outlet cover. If you want to pack it in a baggie, and attach a string to the bag, drop the bag behind the drywall and tape the end of the string to the wall on a spot that will be covered by the outlet cover. Preferably an outlet in a child's room. Deep inside vents is another option but make it DEEP.
If inside your house, put it in the wall. Remove an electrical or cable outlet and drop it into the drywall. Then replace the outlet cover. If you want to pack it in a baggie, and attach a string to the bag, drop the bag behind the drywall and tape the end of the string to the wall on a spot that will be covered by the outlet cover. Preferably an outlet in a child's room. Deep inside vents is another option but make it DEEP.
- Do not hide it in the kitchen. This place will be one that crooks will go through.
- Do not hide it in the bathroom.
- Assume everything will be knocked over and looked under.
- Do not put it inside something that may be taken (inside lamp post, stereo equipment, pillows, luggage etc)
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yeah dont put on or in furniture as your home may be looted and good stuff stolen..if you have to get out quick or you dont make it home 1st?..but the ground isnt going anywhere unless maybe were talking a earthquake?
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I would recommend a safe deposit box. If something happens to you and you have it in a hole in the ground it will be lost forever. And if you end up in a coma and someone sells your TV with gold strapped to the back you'd be out.
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A safe deposit box and a Bank Holiday could yield the same results.
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dude, its 15 ounces...put it in your sock drawer...
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Bury it. Really, it's not that hard to hide a little more than a pound of metal.
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I think you have this backwards. Non-existent gold being sold ( ala fractional reserve) is now keeping gold's price down and undervalued. Should there be a run on gold, then this sham would be fully exposed because the actual physical gold that exists is only a small percentage of paper gold being sold now. So, over time ( actually, very quickly) gold's price would skyrocket.
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The problems with burying anything of value is that you would have to commit to that location for a long time, and some people do not have access to private ground (apartments in cities, college dorms, etc). I like the ground idea very much, cause I have stuff buried, but there's options indoors that are more available to more people.
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Is your friend freaking NUTS? Why would anyone tell someone where their cache is located?
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Where ever you hide it keep in mind a metal detector can detect it at several feet.
Hide it in or around or under something with a fair amount of metal in it. If it were me and I had a safe I would prolly hide it in the floor under the safe, any thief knows to break into or take the safe. Wherever you hide it protect it from the elements. Welding rod cases are good storage units, they have a rubber o ring on the lid and you can safe guard it from elements even in direct ground burial.
If the gov ever comes looking for gold you can be sure they will have detection equiptment, if you bury it in the ground make sure it is under your large scrap metal pile or something.
Hide it in or around or under something with a fair amount of metal in it. If it were me and I had a safe I would prolly hide it in the floor under the safe, any thief knows to break into or take the safe. Wherever you hide it protect it from the elements. Welding rod cases are good storage units, they have a rubber o ring on the lid and you can safe guard it from elements even in direct ground burial.
If the gov ever comes looking for gold you can be sure they will have detection equiptment, if you bury it in the ground make sure it is under your large scrap metal pile or something.
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I would just so I could watch them dig to China and not find anything..... lol
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